Professor Sarah Tobin published "Jordan's Arab Spring: The Middle Class and the Anti-Revolution" in Middle East Policy Spring 2012, Volume XIX, Number 1. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and recent interviews, Professor Tobin's paper examines the role of the emergent middle class in Amman in shaping national politics, especially anti-revolutionary positions during the Arab Spring.

The New England Council of Latin American Studies awarded its 2011 Best Article Prize to an article co-authored by Professor Torres. Precursors to Femicide: Guatemalan Women in a Vortex of Violence by David Carey, Jr and M. Gabriela Torres published in the Latin American Research Review, vol. 45, no. 3 was recognized by the committee [...]

Professor Donna Kerner in collaboration with Patrick Rashleigh and the Wheaton in Tanzania 2011 Program published "Letters of Hope" in CURA's inaugural issue: Casa (Issue 1). The crafted letter from Tanzanian high school students to President Obama beautifully expresses Professor Kerner's desire to craft a course experience where American students could work in the service [...]